I am a twenty year San Francisco resident who just moved back (Aug. 1) to the Bay area after a 13 month test drive of North Carolina. It's good to be home.

I find beauty in the small and mundane. I like watching wildlife- birds and squirrels and groundhogs. I prefer wildflowers to flower shop flowers (and if I like you, I'll pick them for you.) I would rather sit on the porch and watch the rain pour down than hide from it in a mall or movie theater.

I am very accepting, but not at all politically correct. I often say what I think, regardless of whether it will shock or confuse others.

I often see or hear things others don't notice. This makes me really good at finding lost car keys and spotting exotic wildlife.

I value honesty and commitment. I tell the truth and keep my promises. Because of that I don't make promises lightly. I will listen to what you say, and remember it.

I don't like greed, I think it is the biggest trouble with our society. I am not rich, but I have never been in debt.

I have a rescue greyhound and a rescue orange tabby. All animals seem to sense that I'm an easy mark, so there are often some others who visit regularly.

I love words and word games, and think scrabble or upwords makes for a good evening's fun. I like doing the NYT Sunday crossword in pen. Appreciation and use of puns and spoonerisms will impress me.

I love to walk. It's when i get my best thinking done, and keeps me grounded and in touch with the world. I try to walk at least 3 miles a day or more. I love hiking, but backpacking is a challenge due to an old back injury.

I'm not much for phone conversations. I like to either have time to think about what I'm saying (email, chat) or be able to see who I'm talking to (face to face, no webcam.)

I think my self summary is way too long and not funny enough.

Working as a full time pixel monkey. Exploring who I am evolving into (early pixel man?) Making movies. Making cartoons. Living really cheap because moving across the country-AGAIN-was really expensive.

Anything I really put my mind to. I have run my own company, written an award winning book, directed and edited an award winning short film, hung a permanent show of photo-collage in San Francisco.
Teaching. I used to teach at SF State and several smaller schools in the Bay Area. I once got flown to Mumbai, India to teach a four day seminar.
I can cook- Italian, Indian, Costa Rican, Thai. I can bake super tasty sweet confections, and yummy healthy breads. Pizza, all from scratch, is a specialty.

Making those I love, two-legged and four-legged, feel loved.

My height, I'm 6'4 and look it.
My eagerness to answer questions. I almost always have knowledge to share, and I like doing it. So much so that it's not uncommon for me to come up with answers to rhetorical questions.

My favorite books change all the time, but Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is way up there, lots of other geeky SF too. And Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are" which has the best opening line of any book ever: "The night Max wore his wolf suit..."

My favorite movie is even harder, I'm a film maker. The first favorite movie I ever had was "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn. These days I love everything from the Coen Bros. to Andrei Tarkovsky to Batman.

Musically I am on a seventies reggae kick right now. I also love early jazz and swing, and 80's punk and ska.

I love ethnic food. Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, Persian, Ethiopian, all of it.

Words- to read, to write, to invent
Pets, my dog is my best friend (cliches be damned)
Sex (though this is less true than I imagined six months ago)
Coffee, strong
Conversation
Alone time

Everything. How and Why.

Time, the flow of time, time travel.

How to make a feature film on no budget.

Thinking is one of my favorite hobbies.

Celebrating the Friday afternoon salute with my friends followed by:
TBD
(hey I just got back, nothing's typical yet.)

I have tattoos of my ex-kitties paw prints over my heart. They were inscribed with a mixture of ink and ashes. The ashes were my ex-kitties.

You are sweet, smart and sexy. Or can fake it well.

You aren't afraid of intelligence or sex.